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g
i
A
i
= B
.B
for B
= B
1
(x
), B
= B
1
(x
).
In fact, if P = B
teeny
(0) (to be thought of as a pea) and S = B
huge
(0) (the
sun), there is a partition of P into nitely many pieces (where the number depends
on the ratio of huge to teeny) and there are rigid motions so that the rearranged
pieces of the pea make up the sun.
Recall: sets, countability
B-T will turn out to rely critically on a version of the Innite Hotel paradox.
(An N-numbered hotel can accommodate: one more; 35 more; N more; N
2
more.
But the rst two can be done rigidly and the last two can not.)
2. A Paradoxical Null Set in the Plane
Recall: a metric space is (X, d) for a distance/metric d : X
2
R
0
. An isome-
try f : X X
i=0
i
(D), which is also countable. Clearly
S
2
= (S
2
) . . Now note that () = D. This is just the Innite Hotel at
work! Applying moves everybody over one room, opening up the rst.
= D. (D) .
2
(D) .
() = (D) .
2
(D) .
Therefore
S
2
= (S
2
) . (S
2
) . () = S
2
D.